Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson had a chance to put Trinity away before the doubles matches even started, but number three Dave Beckman couldn't capitalize on a match point opportunity. Trinity's Dexter M. Bride took two tie-breakers for a gutsy, 4-6, 7-6, 7-6 victory...
...Columbia defense, which executed the offside trap almost professionally any time the Harvard eleven tried to penetrate. As a result, Harvard's scoring hopes never reached fruition. Also contributing to the setback was the gadfly-like function performed by the Lions' Caribbean-born front line of Solomon Gayle, Dexter Skeene and Kingsley chin, all three of whom stayed in the faces of the Crimson back four throughout the game...
FICTION: Edisto, Padgett Powell God's Pocket, Pete Dexter ∙ Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon Sweeney Astray, Seamus Heaney Testing the Current, William McPherson ∙ The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera...
...exceptions are Leon's mother and Novelist Pete Dexter, 40, who in God's Pocket (Random House; 274 pages; $14.95) turns a random incident into a picaresque romp. Jeanie Hubbard Scarpato, still pretty in middle age despite a life that has "had more sorry chapters than the Old Testament," refuses to believe that the son she raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells...
...Author Dexter, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, piles on more complications and coincidences than his novel ought to carry. What saves God's Pocket from flighty sensationalism is its impressive ballast of local color. The fictional neighborhood named in the title is a white, working-class enclave in South Philadelphia that seems all too real: narrow houses, streets, lives; a place where the Hollywood Bar, the social hub of the area, does "half its business before noon." Some of the novel's best times are spent at the Hollywood. Mickey hears a drunken woman praise...